The Law of Mass action predicts that all adverse drug reactions are related to the concentration of the drug at the site of ...
Public health officials in Sheffield have successfully blocked plans for a new McDonald’s drive-through restaurant after ...
Clinical negligence in England has failed to be tackled by the government for more than two decades despite multiple warnings, ballooning costs, and “profound devastation and suffering,” the public ...
Colombia’s bungled reforms show why healthcare systems must be shielded from politics. Luke Taylor reports It started with delays. Patients queued for hours outside pharmacies from dawn and routine ...
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain people they deem illegal immigrants. The revelation comes as ...
Authorities in the east Indian state of West Bengal have placed over 200 people into quarantine after confirming two cases of Nipah virus, both in healthcare workers. All the quarantined are close ...
The UK’s approach to food makes it increasingly vulnerable in an unstable world. A great food transformation with a focus on resilience is urgently needed, argues Paul Behrens Last week the UK ...
Vaccine success leads to complacency, so we must get better at publicising wins and countering disinformation, UK senior ...
A new safety warning to doctors and patients around a rare but potentially fatal side effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists has been issued by UK regulators. Sold under brands ...
Mafi’s commentary suggests that reform of exception reporting risks reducing doctors to “shift workers paid by the minute.”1 ...
The BMJ ’s coverage on the death of a newborn baby after a remote consultation exposes a governance gap that continues to undermine patient safety in digital care.1 Despite widespread implementation, ...
Navigating the prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening quagmire is challenging without falling into prostate cancer’s “heterogeneity black hole.” I read the 23 year follow-up of the European ...